Adidas Extreme Power Special Edition
Adidas (2012)

Not bad for a cheap EdT. Would rate it positive even if we were rating within that segment only here. Quite elaborate too. Not your average sports brand scent. It's that rare find you come across when trying hard to find cheap gold in your local drugstore.

Youthly, sweet, fresh, sporty, soapy. Pale woods in the background and up front is an unusual, non gourmand sweetness that keeps dominating. Maybe it's the Galbanum partnering with Coumarin.

It by far beats all their other fragrances I've tried (Dynamic Pulse, Ice Dive, Team Force, ...). Warning: it does get synthetic if you focus on it, probably some notes or accord Adidas uses.

Over here it mostly got discontinued a couple of years ago. I wonder why.

First, keep in mind that this is Adidas, it's going to cost about 10 bucks for 100ML if you shop around just a little, it's not niche, it's not high priced, it is, simply Adidas, and for the price, it is quite nice. The top notes, to me, center on bergamot and lemon,and it is very nice to my nose. Next comes the apple and it hangs around a while, remember it is synthetic apple of course, but it's not a bad synthetic, the coffee I don't detect at all and geranium MIGHT be there in the background. The base to me, is mostly white cedar wood and tonka but it works pretty well with maybe a hint of the sandalwood and patchouli peeking out shyly. The longevity (for me) is about 4 good hours maybe up to 6 or more if you tend to get good longevity but you can still detect it as a skin scent even longer. The projection is decent first 2-3 hours but then subsides to more intimate encounter ranges. All in all it is a safe blind buy if you like other Adidas scents or those in that vein, I doubt you will offend anyone and it may garner a compliment or two. I think this is good as a casual every day type scent or even a casual lunch date sort of thing, and of course that "after gym" sort of scent if you are into that. I gave it a thumbs up for scent and reasonable longevity.